J.L. Vives: Declamationes Sullanae I
J.L. Vives: Declamationes Sullanae I

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-03-13

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 900445134X

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This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition, with introduction, notes, and indices, of the first two of Vives' five dramatic speeches on the theme of the abdication of the late Roman Republican dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. These speeches belong among Vives' experiments, in the years 1514-1523, with various imaginative genres, in which he was trying techniques of personal involvement of both himself and the reader in exploration of pressing issues, whether political, ethical, or esthetic. The fundamental theme is the danger of ruling by fear. Sulla's two friends, Fundanus and Fonteius, counsel respectively against and for Sulla's retirement when Rome is full of vengeful survivors of his savage proscriptions.

J.L. Vives: Declamationes Sullanae II
J.L. Vives: Declamationes Sullanae II

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9004228624

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This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition of Declamations 3,4, and 5, comprising the abdication speech of the Roman Republican dictator Sulla, followed by Lepidus the new consul’s two unrestrained attacks on Sulla's morals, henchmen, and political program.

Declamationes Sullanae
Declamationes Sullanae

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9004223649

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This is a critical, annotated, bilingual edition of Declamations 3,4, and 5, comprising the abdication speech of the Roman Republican dictator Sulla, followed by Lepidus the new consul’s two unrestrained attacks on Sulla's morals, henchmen, and political program.

A Companion to Juan Luis Vives
A Companion to Juan Luis Vives

Author: Charles Fantazzi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-11-30

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 9047442024

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The extraordinarily diverse oeuvre of Juan Luis Vives, marked by great erudition and originality, still remains very little known in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays considers his life and the influence of his writings, and examines some of his chief works. These include his books on the education of women and on the relief of the poor, his numerous political writings, and his huge encyclopedic treatise, De disciplinis, a comprehensive critical and systematic review of universal learning and the state of the academic disciplines at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters discuss Vives's ideas on the soul, especially his analysis of the emotions, his contribution to rhetoric and dialectic and a posthumous defense of the Christian religion in dialogue form. Contributors are Enrique Gonzalez Gonzalez, Catherine Curtis, Peter Mack, Valerio Del Nero, Edward V. George.

De Europae dissidiis et republica
De Europae dissidiis et republica

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9004400192

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The De Europae dissidiis et republica (On Conflicts in Europe and on the Commonwealth) is a collection published by Vives in 1526 that has been called his “summa politica.” It contains five letters, to Henry VIII and three prelates including Cardinal Wolsey; a Lucian-style underworld satire on European wars and the Turkish threat; and Latinizations of two political speeches by Isocrates. It counsels the pursuit of peace following Christian principles, but it also explores the possibility of an aggressive war against the Turks as the means of unifying and saving European Christendom. It urges the calling of a council to deal with Luther. We present critical Latin texts and, for the first time, English translations, with introduction and notes.

Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions
Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions

Author: Kaarlo Havu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-30

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1000581403

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By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives’ intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and political peace were actualised rhetorically and critically in a princely environment, and finally, rethought the cognitive and emotional foundations of humanist rhetoric in his late and famous De anima et vita (1538). Ultimately, towards the end of his life, Vives epitomised a distinctively cognitive view of politics; he maintained that political concord was not a direct outcome of institutional or legal reform or of the spiritual transformation of the Christian world (an optimistic Erasmian interpretation) but that concord could only be upheld once the dynamics of emotions that motivated political action were understood and controlled through responsible rhetoric that respected decorum and civility.

More to Cranevelt
More to Cranevelt

Author: Saint Thomas More

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9789061867920

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This book tells the story of seven new letters from Sir Thomas More to Frans van Cranevelt that were discovered among a bundle of letters that were auctioned in London in 1989, part of the private archive of Cranevelt. The letters span the years 1519-1522.